AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8519, 26 August 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ARAWATSA—INGEBORG USQL.LISION. .BRISBANE, Augusts. At the.collision enquiry, theJboatswain of -the Arawatta, in -cirossexaminatiou,.deposed that one of. the crew of the Jngeborg came to..him and .said -that if the captain would guarantee £MO he would exonerate the Arawatta. He also told witness that the Jhgaborg had no lights.ysf.ter leaning Jttew^&ealand; only a candle in tiis Hght-Jbouse, made fast with a bit e<£ string. A PERTH SENSATION. ;£EETH, Augusta. A »cat morteiK examination of.fcfee remains of Miss Fouracies disele-sod the fact that.absiiad been shot. {An Indian named Kitchener ; hs£. been of murdering Miss Fouracies- Letters, burn-; ing, were .discovered in the hause.j Her bedy, -parti&Sy consumed, vwas; also fousid-inside. syndications point jbpj the conclusion-.that the woman was j killed wfeile .in ja .field, and thenj fljsyse which was; fired. Some .of .Miss Fouracies' he-j longings sreaie if quu&&i the possesssanji of Kitcheaej).. THE KAWAKW WRECK 1 j | SOBART, August 24. j The court found ifchatcGaptain Craw-: ford was justified in attempting to enter the harbsar and that no blame was attached to him or fcis officers for the loss of the Kawa.ta.ri. The court expressed satisfaction the captain's conduct after d&s vessel struck.

OBITUARY-

MR A. BUDGE,

Received August 25, 5.8 <p,B3. SYDNEY, August 25. Tfce death is announced of Mr AJexssder Budge, for forty-four years cjcrk of the Executive Council